or anothergets, anothergaines, anothergates, anotherguise, anotherkins, adj. (old colloquial).—That is another ‘sort,’ ‘kind,’ ‘manner,’ ‘fashion,’ etc. [O.E.D.: A phonetic reduction from ANOTHERGETS (for ANOTHERGATES).] Hence ANOTHERGUESS SORT OF MAN (WOMAN, etc.) = one ‘up to SNUFF’ (q.v.).
1580. SIDNEY, Arcadia (1622), 152. If my father had not plaid the hasty foole I might have had ANOTHER-GAINES husband than Dametas.
1594. J. LYLY, Mother Bombie, i. Bringing up ANOTHER-GATES marriage.
1602. SHAKESPEARE, Twelfth Night, v. 1. He would have tickled you OTHER GATES than he did.
1625. HOWELL, Familiar Letters, I. ix. 4. I wish you ANOTHERGETS wife than Socrates had.
1631. SAUNDERSON, 21 Sermons, i. 7. That, I ween, is ANOTHER-GATES matter.
1655. Comical History of Francion. I am constrained to make ANOTHER GUESSE divertisement.
1663. BUTLER, Hudibras, I. iii. 428.
| Hudibras, about to enter | |
| Upon ANOTHER-GATES adventure. |
1664. FLECKNOE, Love’s Kingdom. I co’d make OTHERGESS musick with them.
1682. D’URFEY, Madame Tickle. He has been a student in the temple these three years; ANOTHER GUESS SORT OF MAN, I assure you.
1690. SHADWELL, The Amorous Bigot, iii. 268. She has made ANOTHER GUESS choice.
1690. DRYDEN, Amphitryon, iii. The truth on’t is, she’s ANOTHERGHESS Morsel than old Bromia.
1727. ARBUTHNOT, The History of John Bull, 92. It used to go ANOTHER-GUISE manner in my time.
1762. FOOTE, The Orators, iii. (1767), 61. This is ANOTHERGUESS matter.
1764. WALPOLE, Otranto, ii. My lady Isabella is of ANOTHERGUESS mould than you take her for.
1766. COLMAN, The Clandestine Marriage. This is quite ANOTHER-GUESS sort of a place than it was when I first took it, my lord.
1837. T. E. HOOK, Jack Brag, iii. 227. He was, as they say, ‘quite ANOTHER GUESS sort of man’ from what he had been.
1837. MRS. PALMER, Devonshire Courtship, 12. Her’s ANOTHER GESS ’OMAN than Dame.
1844. F. LIARDET, Tales by a Barrister, ii. 335. You bean’t given to malting of a morning,—more’s the pity,—you would be ANOTHER GUESS-SORT OF A MAN if you were.
1868. BROWNING, The Ring and the Book, iv. 1498. ANOTHERGUESS tribunal than ours here.
1870. The Argosy, Dec. 447. Wolfe Barrington came. Quite ANOTHER GUESS SORT OF PUPIL.
